“Oh you can do that all day just so you can have something to write about,” LaVar told ESPN. “That boy can play barefoot and do the same thing. He’s just letting them know he can play in any shoe he feels like. That’s how that Big Baller Brand roll. We’ve got that independence. We don’t have to be strapped down. You know how many players want to do that?”

Additionally, LaVar told ESPN's business reporter Darren Rovell that his son's shoe choice was “making a statement to the brands of what they could have had with an open mind."